Alvarez 5064

Bought mine back in 1980 in Houston for around $380 with a hard shell case. The guitar has seen many years of hard use, and the finish has held it's own. I replaced the original tuners with Grovers about ten years ago because the factory tuners were plumb wore out. Have also had to replace the first five frets as the brass wore down to a point where the strings just rattled. Over all, good materials and nice inlays. Good action in my opinion.

I played almost fifty acoustic guitars in two different music stores before I decided on this model, and it was the sound that sold me. After twenty eight years of use, it sounds even better than when I bought it. I use medium guage strings, and the bottom is rich with a full midrange and good clean highs. I play a lot of country-folk, and use a pick and finger pick...it holds up both ways.

I did add an electric piazzo (bridge saddle type) pickup so I could play the instrument electrically. It sounds better when played as an acoustic.

The action has always been good. The finish is great. I like the sharp cutaway. A nicely detailed guitar with good inlays and nice binding that have held up to a lot of use. The binding on the neck has yellowed a bit with age, but has no effect on my love of this guitar.

As I stated above, this guitar gets regular use. I also taught one of my sons how to play on it and he almost wore the frets off of it, causing me to have to replace a few. The fingerboard is still solid, the neck is straight, and the body of the guitar only sports a few small dings on the back from belt buckles and the occassional fall. A well made instrument.

I never had to rely on customer support, so have no opinion.

I have been playing guitar since 1967, and this is and has been by far my favorite acoustic.

I love the sound first and foremost, but the guitar is light and solid and it fingers and chords like a dream. I would compare it to some of the high end Martins I have played or maybe some of the Gibson dreadnaughts. I wish it had come with and internal pickup with an EQ like the more modern guitars. The sound would be awesome through the right amp.

features are quite detailed by previous reviewer.

good sound. it came with xtra lites on it and sounded cheap and thin. restrung with mediums and it really does have a nice sound. i use it as my dadgad tuned guitar and it plays really well. nice balanced tight sound. not too bass heavy and not to high. really is a light guitar, so light that it's surprising how nice it sounds

has a classy sharp cutaway. you can tell it's an actual dread with a cutway fitted. many cutaway guitars have a shape of their own... were designed as a cutaway guitar. not this alvarez. has the flat paddle lawsuit headstock that i dig (like a martin). tuners are kind of cheap and will probably be upgraded to grovers as all my other guitars are.

i'm sure this would do fine as a gig guitar. has had no concerns since i've owned it.

customer support and 25-30 year old guitars really don't go hand in hand.

considering what i paid there is no rating other than a perfect ten.

Bought new in August 1979 w/ the cheapo chipboard case.
Single cutaway, solid spruce top, mohagany sides,back and neck.
Bound rosewood neck, 20 frets, dot inlays, chrome standard tuners, plastic nut, ebony bridge, bridge pins have a black center dot.
Nice inlay around soundhole with tortise plasstic pickguard.
Bound top (w,b,w,b,w,b,w) Bound back (single white).

I bought this guitar because of the single cutaway. I had sold my electrics (56 strat and 66 mustang) and needed something to strum as I was going thru withdrawals and the neck was sorta close to the fenders I was used too. It is a big guitar 15 7/8 lower bout and the top is not parallel to the back measuring 4" deep at the top and 4 3/4
deep at the bottom and 40 1/2 overall length.
I always liked the sound it seemed to me to be full and balanced.
I use it for fingerpicking like the Beatles Blackbird and also acoustic blues and rock. It s strung with GHS 12's.
I have played this with some very high dollar Martins and have always been pleased with how well this guitar holds up.

Fit and finish were very good. I do have a hard time tuning the G string, it seems to get hung up in the nut.

Aside from some truss rod tweaking (once)after using it for over 20 years and a small crack in the plastic nut it has been flawless.
After all this time everythin is very tight.

I never had to use customer support.

Been playing for over 35 years. If this guitar was lost or stolen I might look at other guitars but mostly just to try something new. I wish the action was a little better but it is an acoustic guitar and it was only $250.00 people who play it say to quit my bitchin.